Chapter 4, Section 13, Mr. Tuomala's Page 18. We are still with Misha and Dr. Zhivago
136. Misha gets his wish as the Germans have broken through and the Russians must retreat.
137. Dr. Zhivago complains that the laundry has not been done.
138. Misha and Dr. Zhivago run through the streets dodging bullets as the doctor sees Misha to his carriage.
139. Misha departs and the doctor is to follow in the second party.
140. While returning to his place, Dr. Zhivago is knocked off his feet by an explosion and rendered unconscious by a shell splinter.
Chapter 4, Section 14, Mr. Tuomala's Page19. Dr.Zhivago is recovering in the officers' ward at a hospital.
141. The hospital in which Dr. Zhivago is recovering is moved to a village near the general headquarters; It is now Februrary.
142. Galiulin lies in the bed opposite Dr. Zhivago. He is reading the newspaper and complaining about censorship of the news.
143. Dr. Zhivago is reading his wife's (Tonia/s) letters.
144. Nurse Lara enters the room.
145. Dr. Zhivago and Galiullin recognize Lara neither realizing the other knew her.
146. Lara knows neither of them.
147. Galiullin tells Lara her husband, Pavel Antipov, has not been killed but has been taken prisoner.
148. Lara refuses to believe Galiullin. She leaves the room not wishing to cry in front of strangers.
149. Lara returns, avoids Galiullin, goes to Dr. Zhivago to ask about his injuries. What is her reason for not asking Galiullin for further information?
150. Dr. Zhivago says he is a doctor and is looking after himself. He does not tell Lara he knows her. He recalls Anna Ivanovna in her coffin and Tonia's screems. Why does he not identify himself? (Help me remember: Was this Anna Ivanovna Gromeko?)
151. Lara thinks that she has somehow offended Dr. Zhivago.
152. Lara sees Dr. Zhivago as a man with a snub nose and an unremarkable face. Why does Pasternak tell us this?
153. The political situation darkens as strange reports from the interior of Russia and telegraphic communications with St. Petersburg are cut off again and again.
154. Lara muses about the "young and gruff " Dr. Zhivago; he is not handsome but has an attrative mind. Why has Dr. Zhivago not identified himself?
155. Lara wishes to finish her job and get back to Katenka and her teaching position in Yuriatin.
156. Lara seems to have no thought about following up on Galiullin's revelations about Pavel's having been taken prisoner. Why?
157. Lara believes the war has been lost and that she has done her duty.
158. Lara sees heself now as nothing more than a mother.What is her reason for this turn-around? She had abandoned Katenka to search for Pavel but now motherhood is her only mission.
159. Dr. Zhivago learns that Misha and Dudorov have published his book but without his permission. What book is this? I do not recall Pasternak's having mentioned a book.
160. There is discontent among the masses and grave political events seem imminent.
161. Dr. Zhivago recalls his home life with Tonia and Sasha.
162. Lara realizes she has not thanked Galiullin for his devotion to Pavel. She tries to make up for this oversight by asking Galiullin about himself.
163. Lara is reminded of the house at Twenty-eight Brest Street and the Tiverzins.
164. She thinks about the shooting in 1905 in that neighborhood and now the shooters are in the army.
165. The news comes that there is street fighting in St. Petersburg and the Revolution has begun.
End of Page 20 of Mr. Tuomala's text
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI!
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Dr. Zhivago, Chapter 4, Section 10, Yurii and Misha in Polish Galicia
Chapter 4, Section 10:
95. Misha asks about horses to return him to the railway station.
96. Some advancing Russian forces have been encircled and the Germans have crossed the Sventa at a place that was thought to be impassable.
97. Dr. Zhivago is pleased that calves feet is on the menu for dinner.
98. The town, with Western European style lattice windows, where Dr. Zhivago's medical unit is located remains undamaged by the fighting.
99. The town suffers from "Indian" summer.
100. The doctors curse the orderlies for not knowing how to build a fire.
101. The gunfire is no-stop but from time to time a deep bang is heard from the explosion of a shell from a Big Bertha, a 16 inch German artillery piece.
102. There is a discussion of nauseatingly sweet smell in the air which seems to be a combination of decaying corpses and hemp (marijuana plants). Remember hemp has uses other than as a recreational drug.
103. Misha Gordon learns Dr. Zhivago's ideas of the effects of modern warfare especially the mutilation caused by new weapons.
104. Misha sees the immorality of war but merely crying over it is just as immoral. He believes that behaving simply and honestly according to the circumstances in which one finds oneself is the way to live.
105. Misha and Dr. Zhivago go near the front to a first aid station. The doctor tells Misha the situation may change at any moment and not to play the hero if incoming fire begins.
106. Wounded soldiers are sprawled along the sides of the road and ammunition carts filled with more wounded from the front are coming in.
107. The lightly wounded are bandaged up and the seriously wounded are being operated on.
108. Unbeknownst to Dr. Zhivago, Misha Gordon, Lara, Private Gimzetdin and Lieutenant Galiullin are brought together.
109. Private Gimazetdin is brought in on a stretcher with a shell fragment lodged in his jaw bone.
110. Lieutenant Galiullin, the private's son, is shouting at the medical officer. The nurse, Lara, fears the two men walking near Private Gimazetdin may yank the shell fragment out of his jaw.
111.. Misha and Dr. Zhivago witness this scene.
112. Pasternak says, "All these people were there together, in one place. But some of them had never known each other, while others failed to recognize each other now. And there were things about them which were never to be known for certain, while others were not to be revealed until a future time, a later meeting." What is Pasternak's meaning here and what is his purpose in telling this to us.
Section 11, Misha Gordon and Dr. Zhivago are still together.
113. Dr. Zhivago and Misha are driving back to the base through one of the miraculously intact villages when they see a young Cossack tormenting and old Jewish man to the delight of the crowd of onlookers. The old man's wife comes out to try to stop it and his granddaughters are watching from a window and crying.
114. Dr. Zhivago's driver is amused by this scene, but the doctor orders the young Cossack to stop the torment. It appears the doctor has military rank and can give orders to soldiers.
115. The doctor and Misha return to the base in silence. Why in silence? Would the doctor have stopped the torment if his Jewish friend, Misha, had not been with him?
116. As they arrive at the base, the doctor expresses his feelings about the treatment of Jews, especially in the "Pale." The word choice here is suspect. The Pale is the English-speaking part of Ireland, chiefly Eastern Ireland centering around Dublin. I doubt this term would be known to Pasternak's Russian readers. Is it possible Pasternak did use this term knowing that his book might never be read in Russia and that other Europeans would recognize it? Today the expression "beyond the Pale" means outside normal bounds.
117. The area in question is Polish where large numbers of Jews had settled.
118. Why does Misha not respond to Dr. Zhivago defense of the Jews of Polish Galicia?
Chapter 4, Section 12, We are still with Dr. Zhivago and Misha in the Carpathian Mountains.
119. Note the description of the valley where the local railway station is located.
120. The military and the medical unit prepare for a visit from the tsar.
121. The txar's remarks are greeted with thunderous hurrahs.
122. Grand Duke Nicholas guides and ushers the tsar through the ceremonies.
123. The tsar seems older and more tired than his image on the money and medals.
124 Dr. Zhivago feels sorry for the tsar and wonders how such a diffident (shy/retiring) man could be the opressor of a nation.
125. Dr. Zhivago believes the tsar should have made a patriotic, peptalk-like speech as other leaders would have done.
126. The doctor seems to change his mind on this point thinking such a speech would be theatrical and unthinkable in Russia.
127. Top of Mr. Tuomala's typed page 17: Dr. Zhivago takes on the journalists whose repetative and absurd reports to newspapers fail to get to the heart of the matter. How do you interpret his complaint against these journalists? How does this relate to the pending revolution?
128. Misha finally responds to Dr. Zhivago's remarks on the tormenting of the old Jewish man in the village.
129. Why does Misha say there is no point in philosophizing on the incident with the old man?
130. On the other hand; however, Misha says philosophy does come into play vis-a-vie the Jewish Question as a whole. What can this mean?
131. Misha says both he and Dr. Zhivago got there ideas from Uncle Nikolai. Uncle Nikolai had said that Christ had begun history and had introduced the concept of individuality and individual salvation. How do these assertions relate to the Jewish Question?
132. Dr. Zhivago's reply in the middle of Mr. Tuomala's page 17 seems confusing to me. He appears to say the universality of the Christian philosophy that has tranformed nations is merely a proposal "naive and timid." I am sure that I am not getting this right. We need to discuss this.
133.Dr. Zhivago continues by saying in the Kingdom of Heaven there are no Jews and no Gentiles but only individuals. He says the Gospels were not needed to express this as Greek, Roman, and Hebrew thinkers had already figured this out. Does this seem to be correct to you?
134. Misha states that facts are meaningless unless meaning is put into them and that the "mystery of the individual" must be put into the facts to make them meaningful. What is Misha trying to tell us? What is Pasternak's purpose?
135. Misha continues to discuss the Jewish Question by asking why the Jews who gave birth to Christianity simply not accept Christianity and give up their identity as Jews.
Section 13, Mr. Tuomala's page 18 to follow.
COGITO ERGO SUM.
95. Misha asks about horses to return him to the railway station.
96. Some advancing Russian forces have been encircled and the Germans have crossed the Sventa at a place that was thought to be impassable.
97. Dr. Zhivago is pleased that calves feet is on the menu for dinner.
98. The town, with Western European style lattice windows, where Dr. Zhivago's medical unit is located remains undamaged by the fighting.
99. The town suffers from "Indian" summer.
100. The doctors curse the orderlies for not knowing how to build a fire.
101. The gunfire is no-stop but from time to time a deep bang is heard from the explosion of a shell from a Big Bertha, a 16 inch German artillery piece.
102. There is a discussion of nauseatingly sweet smell in the air which seems to be a combination of decaying corpses and hemp (marijuana plants). Remember hemp has uses other than as a recreational drug.
103. Misha Gordon learns Dr. Zhivago's ideas of the effects of modern warfare especially the mutilation caused by new weapons.
104. Misha sees the immorality of war but merely crying over it is just as immoral. He believes that behaving simply and honestly according to the circumstances in which one finds oneself is the way to live.
105. Misha and Dr. Zhivago go near the front to a first aid station. The doctor tells Misha the situation may change at any moment and not to play the hero if incoming fire begins.
106. Wounded soldiers are sprawled along the sides of the road and ammunition carts filled with more wounded from the front are coming in.
107. The lightly wounded are bandaged up and the seriously wounded are being operated on.
108. Unbeknownst to Dr. Zhivago, Misha Gordon, Lara, Private Gimzetdin and Lieutenant Galiullin are brought together.
109. Private Gimazetdin is brought in on a stretcher with a shell fragment lodged in his jaw bone.
110. Lieutenant Galiullin, the private's son, is shouting at the medical officer. The nurse, Lara, fears the two men walking near Private Gimazetdin may yank the shell fragment out of his jaw.
111.. Misha and Dr. Zhivago witness this scene.
112. Pasternak says, "All these people were there together, in one place. But some of them had never known each other, while others failed to recognize each other now. And there were things about them which were never to be known for certain, while others were not to be revealed until a future time, a later meeting." What is Pasternak's meaning here and what is his purpose in telling this to us.
Section 11, Misha Gordon and Dr. Zhivago are still together.
113. Dr. Zhivago and Misha are driving back to the base through one of the miraculously intact villages when they see a young Cossack tormenting and old Jewish man to the delight of the crowd of onlookers. The old man's wife comes out to try to stop it and his granddaughters are watching from a window and crying.
114. Dr. Zhivago's driver is amused by this scene, but the doctor orders the young Cossack to stop the torment. It appears the doctor has military rank and can give orders to soldiers.
115. The doctor and Misha return to the base in silence. Why in silence? Would the doctor have stopped the torment if his Jewish friend, Misha, had not been with him?
116. As they arrive at the base, the doctor expresses his feelings about the treatment of Jews, especially in the "Pale." The word choice here is suspect. The Pale is the English-speaking part of Ireland, chiefly Eastern Ireland centering around Dublin. I doubt this term would be known to Pasternak's Russian readers. Is it possible Pasternak did use this term knowing that his book might never be read in Russia and that other Europeans would recognize it? Today the expression "beyond the Pale" means outside normal bounds.
117. The area in question is Polish where large numbers of Jews had settled.
118. Why does Misha not respond to Dr. Zhivago defense of the Jews of Polish Galicia?
Chapter 4, Section 12, We are still with Dr. Zhivago and Misha in the Carpathian Mountains.
119. Note the description of the valley where the local railway station is located.
120. The military and the medical unit prepare for a visit from the tsar.
121. The txar's remarks are greeted with thunderous hurrahs.
122. Grand Duke Nicholas guides and ushers the tsar through the ceremonies.
123. The tsar seems older and more tired than his image on the money and medals.
124 Dr. Zhivago feels sorry for the tsar and wonders how such a diffident (shy/retiring) man could be the opressor of a nation.
125. Dr. Zhivago believes the tsar should have made a patriotic, peptalk-like speech as other leaders would have done.
126. The doctor seems to change his mind on this point thinking such a speech would be theatrical and unthinkable in Russia.
127. Top of Mr. Tuomala's typed page 17: Dr. Zhivago takes on the journalists whose repetative and absurd reports to newspapers fail to get to the heart of the matter. How do you interpret his complaint against these journalists? How does this relate to the pending revolution?
128. Misha finally responds to Dr. Zhivago's remarks on the tormenting of the old Jewish man in the village.
129. Why does Misha say there is no point in philosophizing on the incident with the old man?
130. On the other hand; however, Misha says philosophy does come into play vis-a-vie the Jewish Question as a whole. What can this mean?
131. Misha says both he and Dr. Zhivago got there ideas from Uncle Nikolai. Uncle Nikolai had said that Christ had begun history and had introduced the concept of individuality and individual salvation. How do these assertions relate to the Jewish Question?
132. Dr. Zhivago's reply in the middle of Mr. Tuomala's page 17 seems confusing to me. He appears to say the universality of the Christian philosophy that has tranformed nations is merely a proposal "naive and timid." I am sure that I am not getting this right. We need to discuss this.
133.Dr. Zhivago continues by saying in the Kingdom of Heaven there are no Jews and no Gentiles but only individuals. He says the Gospels were not needed to express this as Greek, Roman, and Hebrew thinkers had already figured this out. Does this seem to be correct to you?
134. Misha states that facts are meaningless unless meaning is put into them and that the "mystery of the individual" must be put into the facts to make them meaningful. What is Misha trying to tell us? What is Pasternak's purpose?
135. Misha continues to discuss the Jewish Question by asking why the Jews who gave birth to Christianity simply not accept Christianity and give up their identity as Jews.
Section 13, Mr. Tuomala's page 18 to follow.
COGITO ERGO SUM.
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